Young Justice #4

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• Cover date: January 1999; on-sale date: November 4, 1998. Story title: 'Harm's Way.'
• Creative team: Writer Peter David, Pencils Todd Nauck, Inks Lary Stucker, Colors Jason Wright/Digital Chameleon, Letters Kenny Lopez, Editor Eddie Berganza.
• First appearance of the supervillain Harm (Billy Hayes), Secret's adoptive brother, who had murdered Greta to gain power and serves as the primary antagonist of this arc and a recurring threat to the team.
• Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark), Arrowette (Cissie King-Jones), and Secret (Greta Hayes) all join or align with Young Justice in this issue, expanding the team from its founding male trio to a full co-ed ensemble for the first time.
• Arrowette's subplot drives the plot: she is shot through the shoulder by Harm using one of her own arrows — an arrow he caught in midair and threw back — and is rescued by the Super-Cycle, which brings her to the team's Happy Harbor headquarters.
• Secret actively recruits Wonder Girl in this issue by approaching her and offering to introduce her to Superboy, underscoring Secret's role as a social catalyst for the team's formation.
• The issue contains a Scooby-Doo homage: captured villain Tora says 'And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!' — in keeping with David's signature pop-culture humor throughout the run.
• The series as a whole earned the 1999 Eisner Award for Best New Series, and this early issue's expansion of the roster is widely cited as a key reason the book achieved the ensemble depth that distinguished it.

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